Gold foil bead

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Mosaic eye bead with gold-foil crosses
Date: 1 century
Egypt


Blue glass matrix with three "x" of gold-foil trails and three mosaic cane eyes in between.
Intact, good condition.
Height 11 mm, diameter 13 mm.

For similar beads see:

- Véronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 157: 202, p.171: 210-25
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 32: 56